“Best”

[PiggoSuperstar]

AIBU to not understand or even like when people end a letter or email with just “Best”? Why not add a simple “wishes” after it? Or just say “yours sincerely”, or a good old “regards”?

Just stop.

Yes, I find that a bit annoying too.

I have a hierarchy, as follows:

Best regards - you are a delight, emailing you is an active pleasure to me

Kind regards - all is well with our professional relationship

Regards - I hope you spend an eternity tormented by the sulphurous fires of hell

Or kind regards (passive aggressive regards)

We used to have a manager who would just sign KR instead of kind regards, and her initials were ABS so she signed off emails with
KR ABS - we all used to call her crabs!

I had ' All best' recently.

I don't care.

Whoops x - posted with HBS above!
Maybe the kindness of the regards depends on whether the person is actually kind? This manager was horrible!

It’s “I am, etc” here.

All best is the weirdest and the worst. It just jars in my mind. Idiots that sign off KR get barely any energy from me. Lazy fuckers.

I agree...Regards is quite aggressive. I do sign off with that when I’ve been pissed off!